Hey I've done that! Blocked entire IP blocks for a given provider or organization from CP for spam or aggressive crawlers that ignore the robots.txt file.
I mean in theory if it worked great, you lose a certain percentage of your market to improve your product for the other (presumably vastly larger) percentage of your market. In principle I don't disagree with that, firing your customer can be a good thing sometimes.
It does kinda go against the whole "global town square" idea though.
Plus how effective will it be? Bots and human spammers seem like they'll just use more sophisticated techniques. It's a game of whack-a-mole.
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